With this post, I am concluding my first full calendar year of blogging at Catholic Web Solutions. As I was thinking about all of the topics I have covered and all of the comments you have posted, I was wondering which posts were the most read. According to my Google Analytics report, the articles below are my top ten posts. If you missed one or the other of these posts,…
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Share YOURSELF on Social Networks
It is a mystery to me why people join social networks, but do not share who they are on these networks. On Twitter, instead of their face—we see that egg shaped avatar; on Facebook there is the profile with the question mark, and on some blogs the author’s identity is nowhere to be found. This does not make any sense to me. Social media is about relating.
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A Website is the Hub of Web Presence
Not long ago, leaders of parishes, dioceses, religious communities, schools and other organizations were pleased and proud to announce that their community or institution had a website. It was a major achievement. If they had a good website, it was because they (or someone else) put a lot of hard work into it. But today, a website is not enough to be truly present to our current members, visitors and…
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Elements of an Engaging Website
Assuming that a website is easy to navigate, attractive to the eye and has interesting and relevant content (characteristics that should not be assumed-but that is a topic for another post), what other elements make a website engaging?
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Facebook Changes? No problem.
First of all, I am not complaining about the recent changes to Facebook. I am too busy trying to figure out where my friends are and who really is seeing my posts. No, seriously, I am an adult, a relatively intelligent adult. This is supposed to be intuitive. I certainly can intuit. And so my inner voices encourage me to go on.
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Sisters Learn Social Media Tools for Communication and Ministry
One of the things I love most about being a woman religious and more specifically a Sister of Notre Dame is all of the wonderful women with whom I share that vocation. From my earliest recollection of sisters through my years of formation and ministry —I have been constantly amazed at the courage, imagination and ingenuity of sisters in forging new paths and using new methods to proclaim the Good…